re: #206 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I know.

It’s not a good thing, I think.

There’s so much that is being missed by the “cancel” movement.

As I indicated, one of the big ones is why our government is encouraging people to go into debt to begin with, for something they otherwise would not have done.

Don’t get me wrong - I love academia. But I know that even in my day people went to college for essentially three reasons:
(1) maintain social status in their family (esp. Ivy league types);
(2) because the student is actually interested in studying particular subjects (this was my case);
(3) to avoid other social obligations, like the Draft.

IMO, and this is I guess just a personal preference, but I think number 2 above is the only good reason to spend many years of your life in perpetual school.

I fear that far too many young people are going to school past HS only because they feel they have to do so. And I think is is poor, and doing people a disservice.
secondly, regarding “cancelling” debt, I see that even Sanders is proposing taxing “Wall Street” (a convenient boogeyman here) to pay off debt. But this is not “cancelling”, simply moving the responsibility around.

Another reason to go to college: to get a well-paying job that will support a family. The problem with school debt these days is that (1) the cost of college has skyrocketed well beyond inflation, even for legitimate schools and (2) for-profit institutions take advantage of students and our loan programs and leave too many without an education but with crushing debt.